I have no idea how long this has been happening, but I just realized that a person commented on a reply of mine but it didn't show up in my "inbox"

I had to go back to the comment section to see that there was a reply

Noticing recently that there's been major sluggishness in system resources on Android 17 on Pixel 8 where having Relay open in the background causes System UI crashes. Anyone else? Closing Relay from the App Switcher immediately resolves the System UI sluggishness.